Hands brain break

If you have not yet visited Dave Sladkey’s website, Energizing Brain Breaks, you are missing out. This blog is filled with great ideas for K-12 classrooms and contains both [Read more…]

Active learning and DI

This month’s theme is using active learning to differentiate. I will be sharing ideas for games, cooperative learning, brain breaks, collaborative structures, project-based instruction and more.
I am featuring this short [Read more…]

FUN FRIDAY: 20 brain breaks for early grades

Teach Train Love has links to twenty videos that will keep your young students dancing and maybe even singing all year round.

Use these songs to energize students, reduce boredom and fatigue, and provide in-class breaks for learners who struggle to [Read more…]

Give me a break!

Oh how we love the brain break activity sticks featured on Keep Calm and Teach On! Students of all ages need to move, talk, share, and interact throughout the day and these fun ideas are not only appropriate for learners of many different ages but are easy to implement even when you only have a […]